BREAKING: MONSANTO FURIOUS WITH MAUI OVER GMO BAN

[Halliburton]

http://mauinow.com/2014/11/05/monsanto-to-file-lawsuit-challenging-maui-gmo-moratorium/

“To protect our employees and farms, and in support of thousands of local residents who opposed this initiative, Monsanto plans to file a lawsuit challenging the legality of this harmful ban,” said Purcell in an email statement.

[NV Whino]

1. Tough shit, Monsanto.

[irisblue]

2. naahhh naah naaahhhh boo booooobo

we hate you......
Deal with it you assclowns

[PCIntern]

3. The whole premise of The X-Files

is based on Monsanto.

[orpupilofnature57]

4. Evil Angels, they should be pooled in with the worst criminals .

[Stallion]

5. Denton County, Texas Became First Texas County to Ban Fracking

...and they were pouring millions into that race threatening the County with lawsuits even before vote. Corporate intimidation

[Pisces]

6. Go fuck yourself Monsansanto!

[djean111]

7. With the TPP-like trade deals, Monsanto can sue in an Investor State court,

be judged by corporate lawyers, and either get all the profit they calculate they would have made, or just go ahead and plant GMOs.

Remember that when Hillary is pushing the TPP.

[stillwaiting]

26. If only Hillary and Barack knew this! Someone tell 'em!! nt

[dixiegrrrrl]

8. Sadly, Oregon voters chickened out on the GMO vote.

Guess the West Coast is not as liberal as it used to be.

[KamaAina]

10. As did California voters in 2012.

It's not a question of being liberal. It's a question of getting suckered by the big-money ad blitzes Monsatan threw at them. Same thing with the insurance companies and Props 45 and 46, which just went down here.

[RufusTFirefly]

12. +1 Propaganda works

Californians approved of GMO labeling by something close to 90 percent. But big money and propaganda whittled that overwhelming edge down to nothing.

[gratuitous]

15. We chickened out, indeed

But it was a lot closer than Monsanto, Pepsi and the other heavy hitters wanted it to be. Measure 92 passed handily in Portland and Eugene and their environs. Not too surprising. It also passed down south around Medford in Jackson County, which has been working this issue for a while. Southern Oregon is pretty conservative, but they're not in thrall to Monsanto. The biggest disappointment had to be the Marion County returns (where Salem is). There's a lot of farm acreage in Marion County, and the fatcat money bomb was apparently quite effective there.

The Measure 92 backers aren't giving up, and they'll be back in 2016, inviting Big Ag to spend another $15-20 million to protect its monopoly meal ticket or change its ways. Maybe in a couple of years some of the "progressive" media voices, like the Willamette Week and Portland Mercury, will choose to side with the people in knowing what's in their food. After all, if there's truly nothing wrong with GMO laced foodstuffs, providing that information to the consumer shouldn't hurt their bottom line, should it?

[99th_Monkey]

16. Many states are legislating GMO labeling requirements

As this interactive map shows. This blew my mind, because it shows how GMO labeling IS THE FUTURE,
and Monsanto would be wiser to use their billions to just label their fucking Frankenfoods and get over it.

http://www.righttoknow-gmo.org/states

[gratuitous]

23. Yes, it's being legislated

But Measure 92 in Oregon was the first time a popular vote nearly brought food labeling about. The latest numbers I saw on the news tonight had the Measure losing by less than 10,000 votes, which is pretty close. If the Oregon legislature doesn't pass a law - and it would probably fetch a petition drive to make it a ballot measure anyway - I think the pro-label folks will make it happen in 2016.

[99th_Monkey]

24. I agree that tho is not going away in Oregon, until it passes

The pro-labeling effort was HUGELY outspent like, 10-1, obscenely
outspent by Koch Bro. Monsanto, et. al. dark money.

If Oregon legislature doesn't deal with it, it will most certainly be on ballot again in '16. Yup.

[charliea]

18. Can't say I'm not disappointed...

But it was close, and I think (hope) the label proponents will try again. Despite what was reported in the Oregonian:

..."Opponents pumped 2 1/2 times as much money into the campaign, raising more than $20 million in an effort to prevent Oregon from being the first state to enact a voter-approved GMO labeling law."...

it came within 1.2%.

Democratic representation in the state Senate has increased so perhaps they'll take up this cause too, at least Vermont's did.

Where I live even my more conservative friends want to know what they're eating. One county in southern Oregon even banned the planting of GMOs

[leftieNanner]

20. The state of Oregon failed on this one

but two Southern Oregon counties (Jackson and Josephine) banned the planting of GMOs earlier this year! I live in Jackson county, which is fairly liberal. Josephine county is much more conservative, so it was a surprise when they approved it too. This election yesterday was for GMO food labeling - not the banning of planting GMO crops. In some ways, the labeling issue is more critical. Fortunately for us, we have a really strong organic farming industry here and we can buy fabulous fresh local ingredients. Not every area has that available, sadly. We still have to stand up to Monsanto!

[0rganism]

21. do you have any idea how much money big agro sunk into this race?

"No" won out by around 10000 votes out of 1.4 million cast. That is far from an insurmountable margin, and the GMers will need to sink just as much money into it in 2015 and 2016. They will lose eventually.

Meanwhile, yesterday, while the rest of the country was busy committing political suicide via GOP, Oregon voters re-elected Democratic incumbents for the house and senate, re-elected a Democratic governor who had been recently bitten by a rather nasty scandal involving his fiance', solidified Democratic control of the state legislature, added an equal rights amendment to the state constitution, and legalized marijuana.

Guess the West Coast is pretty damn liberal after all.

[KamaAina]

9. Someone please call Monsatan a

[JohnyCanuck]

11. It's so hard to understand why Maui's residents would vote that way

Well not really.

GMO Crops Are Destroying Farmland, And Monsanto Doesn’t Want You to Know

These defenders of genetically modified crops regularly claim that GM varieties of soy, corn, and other pestilence-inducing crops actually conserve soil because farmers don’t have to practice tilling in a way that causes erosion. They also lie that GMOs ‘conserve water.’ Well now, let’s look at those claims a little more closely, shall we?

The fact remains that GE varieties of seed have done absolutely nothing to minimize soil erosion or conserve water. Even major media publications are now coming back and apologizing about their original support of companies like Monsanto. Monsanto’s unsavory behavior even resulted in Forbes Magazine’s retraction of naming Monsanto “Company of the Year” in 2009, admitting they were “wrong on Monsanto… really wrong.”

SNIP

GE crops DO NOT conserve water. In fact, as super weeds develop, GE crops inspire farmers to try to irrigate their desirable crops, as any grower would – only they end up watering the super weeds. Water – from ground water to well water to lakes, rivers, streams, and even oceans – is contaminated with copious amounts of pesticides and herbicides that are used to grow GE crops as well. This practice ruins the water that we do have on this planet, making it nearly impossible for farmers in water-poor countries to grow anything. GE crops are in fact one of the biggest sources of water pollution in the U.S. and elsewhere.

No matter how you slice it, the agricultural cake reeks of GM corruption and overt propaganda. GMO crops don’t save our water – they contaminate it. They don’t protect our soil – they kill off the millions of tiny organisms that account for soil health. GMOs are not necessary to feed the world, and they have no place in our food supply. No more GMO!

http://naturalsociety.com/gmo-crops-destroying-farmland-monsanto/

[DisgustipatedinCA]

13. That is a nice little ray of light on this otherwise dismal day. nt

[ReverendDeuce]

14. So when do we invade? n/t

n/t

[Hawaiianlight]

17. Victory for Maui

Monsanto and Dow chemical poured 8 million into stopping this proposition. There is roughly 140k Maui residents so around 75 bucks a potential voter. The airwaves have been flooded for weeks with threatening commercials, mailers and radio ads. Residents were told the initiative was a "ban on farming" and it will "crush Maui's economy". Ads portrayed police arresting farmers trying to plant their crops. Believe me they wanted this one bad!

[MisterP]

19. but Dick Taverne said ...!

[Megahurtz]

22. Fuck MonSatan

and their Trojan Horse!

[grahamhgreen]

25. Another progressive rsult!